My Cloud Expo preso: Taking the Revolutionary Approach

June 14, 2011

Last week Dell was out in force at the Cloud Computing Expo in New York as the event’s diamond sponsor.  Besides the Keynote that President of Dell services Steve Schuckenbrock delivered, Dell also gave, or participated in 11 other talks.

I also gave one the talks and mine focused on the revolutionary approach to the cloud and talked about how this approach was setting a new bar for IT efficiency.

Here’s the deck:

(If the embedded deck doesn’t appear above, you can go to it directly on slideshare).

Talking with Press and Analysts
At the event I also met with press and analysts.  One of the things I find helpful in explaining Dell’s strategy and approach to the cloud is to sketch it out for someone real time.  I guess analysts Chris Gaun and Tony Iams of  Ideas International  found it helpful since they both tweeted a picture of it :) .

Besides analysts I also met with several individuals from the press.  Mark Bilger, CTO of Dell services and I met with Michael Vizard of IT Business Edge and it resulted in the following article Cloud Computing Starts to Get a Little Foggy.

Additionally, to support the event and Dell’s cloud efforts going forward, Dell launched the Dell in the Clouds site.  It’s pretty cool, you may just want to check it out.

Extra-credit reading (all my posts from Cloud Expo):

Pau for now…

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Dell has a BI practice?!

August 31, 2010

The week before last I headed out to The Data Warehouse Institute’s  (TDWI) World Conference in San Diego.  I went out to help support our BI team who were using the event as the forum to unveil Dell’s new Business Intelligence practice.

We got a bunch of puzzled looks as people approached the Dell booth and didn’t see any hardware.  Once however they learned what we were there to announce and why, they seemed to buy it (or maybe they just said they got it because they didn’t want to lose out on a chance to win the Dell Mini we were giving away :)

BI veteran, Mike Lampa, who has been driving the go-to market effort behind the practice acted as our chief spokesperson.   Here’s the message we were delivering, straight from Mike:

Some of the ground Mike covers:

  • Internally, Dell has one of the top 5 data warehouse implementations in world and we use most of the mainstream ETL, BI and database tools that are out there in the market.
  • The Perot acquisition has given us access to a global services delivery engine and we are marrying this channel with the BI expertise we’ve developed internally.
  • We’ll provide consulting services through our verticals and deliver end to end solutions targeted at vertical markets like Education, Health Care and Financial services.
  • Our goal is to do in services what we did in hardware, be  a disruptive force and bring in higher levels of innovation.

Extra Credit Reading

Pau for now…

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